Identifier: encyclopediabrit15bayn (find matches)
Title: The Encyclopedia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, and general literature. With new maps, and original American articles by eminent writers. With American revisions and additions, bringing each volume up to date
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Baynes, Thomas Spencer, 1823-1887
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago R.S. Peale Co
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
rr.iTK II
Text Appearing After Image:
i L Y 0 I A !>3 the stitcmcnt of tlio eamo historian tliat they originallycame from Crete is ia the highest degree improbable; andthoattempts to connect them with the Greek legendaryhistory through Sarpodon and Lycus, a son of Pandion,may be safely rejected as mere fictions. The Lyciana alone among the nations in the west ofAsia Minor preserved their independence against the kingsof Lydia; but after the fall of the Lydiau monarchy (in5iG B.C.) they were subdued by Harpagus, the general ofCyrns, though not till after an obstinate resistance in whichXanthus, their chief city, was utterly destroyed. But,though they were from this time nominally subject toPersia, they appear to have enjoyed a considerable amountof independence, which they afterwards maintained by join-ing the Athenian maritime league. They were conqueredalmost without resistanco by Alexander, and thus passedunder the Macedonian dominion, sometimes of thePtolemies, sometimes of the Seleucidans. But throughall these vici

Note About Images